ok, so I have to use dial-up in order to connect to AIM. There is, however, a problem with this… Netzero only gives 10 free hours a month. That is not very much. So I was trying to find an open port on our network, on which every fricking normally used port in existance, with the exception of 80, which AIM won’t run on, is closed. 1025 worked briefly, but shortly thereafter, I lost my connection and couldn’t reconnect. This is greatly annoying. There is no reason for AIM to be blocked from working. If this is not a temporary side effect of something they are trying to fix, I am going to be extremely irate.
*kills time while the port scanner scans*….
[Edit: Wow… I should have checked that first, I guess. Despite how unlikely it seemed, I decided to check the Erols website to see if they happened to offer a phone number in the Lakeland area… seeing as they are a regional ISP, it seemed they almost certainly would not… however, I did indeed find one….. how convenient… ;)]
[Edit 2: The port scanner just finished. Just to give you an idea of how crazily rediculous the blocked ports thing is…. out of 65,536 ports…. 6 are open ;).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ok, so I have to use dial-up in order to connect to AIM. There is, however, a problem with this… Netzero only gives 10 free hours a month. That is not very much. So I was trying to find an open port on our network, on which every fricking normally used port in existance, with … Continue reading <\/span>